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Richard M. Helms, 65, headed the CIA from 1966 to 1973, then became Ambassador to Iran until late 1976. He now heads an international consulting firm...
...distinguished authority on world oil," and his eminence has only increased over the decades. He researched Nazi oil targets for the U.S. Office of Strategic Services in World War II, later directed the State Department's oil intelligence operations. Now Levy, 67, heads his own Manhattan-based consulting firm and has acted as oil adviser to every Administration since Truman's. Speaking at last week's TIME conference on the Middle East, he gave a sobering energy message. Excerpts...
...Michelangelo, Focke in the mid-1930s built the FW-61, the first helicopter to receive an international certificate of airworthiness. Unsympathetic to the Nazi regime, Focke was removed from his company (Focke-Wulf Flugzeugbau AG) before World War II and thus had no part in the production of the firm's famed fighter-bomber, the FW-190. He continued to design aircraft in France, Britain and Brazil, returning to his native country...
...their H. & R. Block Co. was doing well enough in tax consulting to go public, but a big underwriter backed out at the last minute. The brothers were forced to keep most of the stock for themselves. Today they have by far the nation's largest tax-preparation firm, and the shares of President Henry, Chairman Richard and their families are worth $81 million...
...system has been an inspiring force for Richard Kluger. His latest novel, Star Witness, traces the life and crimes of Feminist Lawyer Tabor Hill. A woman with a hair-trigger wit, she could give lessons in politics to Machiavelli. An affair with a judge, a partnership in an exclusive firm, legal aid to the poor-she does it all, and she does it well. So does Kluger, who knows the layout of the corridors of small-city power down to the decibel level of the lunches...